If we look for a donkey with horns, we may succeed to find but sorry to say in this so-called civilized and modern age we can’t get some fresh air to take deep breaths. Pollution is one of those gifts this modern rapid, fast progress in industrialization offers to humankind.
It wasn’t convincingly realized before but now some researches suggest that even low levels of pollution can also be dangerous for the heart and lungs. The analyses of the researchers were published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. The researchers focused on how small particles that were found in the air affected the function of lungs. In this new research, some studies that were published in the same journal earlier this year were also defended by the researchers. In those previous studies it was shown, how air pollution contributed to heart problems. Is it a grave issue or need not to be worry? U.S. news asked some key questions from renowned experts in this connection.
How can you define particulate pollution?
A report from American Lung Association defines particulate pollution as a mixture of solid and liquid elements in the air that comes from natural sources as wildfires and dust storms, human activities as to burn fossil fuels in the factories or to use diesel engines. Some other particles also take place when some chemicals or materials act in response with another chemical or material in the atmosphere.
